The ferry operator pulled his large flatboat to the edge of the Virginia shore of the Ohio River. He watched and listened ...

At great risk to their own lives, abolitionists created the Underground Railroad, a network of escape routes that provided protection and transportation for slaves fleeing north to freedom. The term ...

Manning says not to think of the Underground Railroad as routes on a map but rather a movement of people. “And when people ask me, ‘Where was it?’ Things like that, I always say ...

Only a small number of slaves traveled by the organized network of routes, "conductors" and "stations" that came to be known as the Underground Railroad. African American men and women of all ages ...

The museum in the basement of First Congregational Church of Detroit gives visitors a look at how slaves escaped North to ...

Colson Whitehead's brutal, brilliant, award-winning novel The Underground Railroad re-imagines the routes that American slaves took to freedom as a literal series of tracks, platforms and covert ...

and resilience of 10 courageous men and women who helped guide enslaved people to freedom via the network of secret routes and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. According to a press ...

An Underground Railroad exhibit curated by the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area is hitting the road and will be making ...

A heritage tourism trail proposed across New York state would include Amsterdam and other Montgomery County communities.